Birthday Party Food - Home-Made Seafood Salad with Garlic Bread Sticks

Home-Made Seafood Salad with Garlic Bread Sticks

For an afternoon birthday party, serving a salad is a great way to avoid sugar binges later. However, a standard salad may be picked over or refused altogether. For kids that like crab, shrimp, and lobster, this seafood salad is sure to be gobbled to the last bite! Add some home-made garlic breadsticks to the table, and you can be certain that your birthday party snack is both delicious and nutritious.

To serve six to eight seafood salads, you will need:

4 tablespoons of light mayonnaise (do not substitute Miracle Whip, the result will be disgusting)

the juice of one lemon

2 cups of shredded, cooked crab meat (imitation can be substituted)

2/3 cup of light sour cream

2 cups of cooked shrimp, de-veined with tails pinched off

2 lobster tails, cubed

1/2 teaspoon of table salt

1 cup of chopped celery

1/4 teaspoon of freshly-ground black pepper

2 chopped green onions, including the tops

6 cups of Romaine lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces

2 cups of fresh baby spinach

Combine the mayo, lemon juice, and sour cream into a bowl. Mix it together, slowly adding in the seafood, salt, celery, pepper, and onions. Once it is well-incorporated, place it in the refrigerator for at least one hour to allow the flavor to set. Once it has set, toss with the spinach and Romaine in a large salad bowl.

While the salad is chilling, you will need the following for the breadsticks:

1 1/2 cup of tepid water

1 tablespoon of yeast

2 tablespoons of granulated sugar

3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon of table salt

1 teaspoon of garlic salt

about eight tablespoons of butter

Parmesan cheese

reheat the oven to 375 degrees. Mix the first five ingredients together for three minute and let it stand for ten. Melt the butter and mix it with the garlic salt. Flatten the dough out into a square and use a rotary pizza cutter to cut it into twelve sticks. Dip them into the butter mixture and lay them on a pizza pan or cookie sheet. sprinkle them with Parmesan cheese. Cover with a kitchen towel and let them rise for half an hour. Then bake them for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden-brown.

Together, the seafood salad and garlic breadsticks make for a filling birthday party snack that both kids and adults are sure to love. Just be sure that no one attending has a seafood allergy and to keep the seafood cold, to avoid spoilage, and enjoy!